noun to threaten, as an evil to be inflicted.
2. menace ·vi to act in threatening manner; to wear a threatening aspect.
3. menace ·noun the show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come.
4. menace ·noun to express or show an intention to inflict, or to hold out a prospect of inflicting, evil or injury upon; to threaten;
usually followed by with before the harm threatened; as, to menace a country with war.